Black Friday Reminder For Those Hating Ads But Loving Linux Hardware/Software As the one and last friendly reminder, if you enjoy the daily and original content found on Phoronix.com but not liking ads and wanting to view multi-page articles on a single page, native dark mode, and more: the 2025 Black Friday / Cyber Week deal is ending Monday to help support the site while enjoying a discounted rate...

Black Friday Reminder For Those Hating Ads But Loving Linux Hardware/Software - Phoronix

As the one and last friendly reminder, if you enjoy the daily and original content found on Phoronix.com but not liking ads and wanting to view mul...

Vulkan 1.4.335 Released With The Very Notable VK_EXT_present_timing Vulkan 1.4.335 released a few hours ago as the latest iteration of this high performance graphics and compute API. With being just a week since the prior update and given the US Thanksgiving week, it's on the lighter side in terms of issues addressed. There is one new extension though and it's a big one: VK_EXT_present_timing is finally merged...

Vulkan 1.4.335 Released With The Very Notable VK_EXT_present_timing - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.335 released a few hours ago as the latest iteration of this high performance graphics and compute API

GCC 16 Switches To Using C++20 Standard By Default Following up on the discussion from earlier this month among GCC developers over switching to C++20 by default for the GCC compiler as the default C++ standard when not otherwise set, that change has indeed happened. Merged now is the change defaulting to C++20 (well, the GNU++20 dialect) rather than C++17/GNU++17 when not otherwise specified when compiling C++ code...

GCC 16 Switches To Using C++20 Standard By Default - Phoronix

Following up on the discussion from earlier this month among GCC developers over switching to C++20 by default for the GCC compiler as the default ...

NVIDIA Is Interested In Helping Bring Vulkan Video To Chrome NVIDIA engineers are interested in helping Google bring Vulkan Video accelerated GPU video decoding to the Chrome/Chromium web browser...

NVIDIA Is Interested In Helping Bring Vulkan Video To Chrome - Phoronix

NVIDIA engineers are interested in helping Google bring Vulkan Video accelerated GPU video decoding to the Chrome/Chromium web browser.

Rocky Linux 10.1 Released As Community Alternative To RHEL 10.1 Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 earlier this month, Rocky Linux 10.1 is now available for this popular community-driven alternative to RHEL 10.1...

Rocky Linux 10.1 Released As Community Alternative To RHEL 10.1 - Phoronix

Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 earlier this month, Rocky Linux 10.1 is now available for this popular community-driven alte...

X.Org Server 21.1.21 Released To Fix Several Regressions For those continuing to make use of the X.Org Server, a new point release is now available in the 21.1 series. While most often X.Org Server stable releases these days are driven by shipping new security fixes, the X.Org Server 21.1.21 release is to fix several regressions introduced for various functional issues...

X.Org Server 21.1.21 Released To Fix Several Regressions - Phoronix

For those continuing to make use of the X.Org Server, a new point release is now available in the 21.1 series

A Very Big Performance Optimization For Loop Block Devices Heading To Linux 6.19 A set of patches implementing async I/O IOCB_NOWAIT support for the loop block device is heading to the Linux 6.19 kernel with some performance improvements that will make loop block device users "wow"...

A Very Big Performance Optimization For Loop Block Devices Heading To Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

A set of patches implementing async I/O IOCB_NOWAIT support for the loop block device is heading to the Linux 6.19 kernel with some performance imp...

Memtest86+ 8.0 Released With Support For Latest Intel & AMD CPUs Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nicely after a decade hiatus. Released on Sunday night was memtest86+ 8.0 as the latest iteration of this popular RAM tester for enthusiasts...

Memtest86+ 8.0 Released With Support For Latest Intel & AMD CPUs - Phoronix

Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nice...

Wayland Protocols 1.46 Released With New Experimental Additions Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR...

Wayland Protocols 1.46 Released With New Experimental Additions - Phoronix

Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management p...

NVIDIA Preps 1.6Tb/s Networking For Linux 6.19 NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware...

NVIDIA Preps 1.6Tb/s Networking For Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware.